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The Robert M. Takasugi Judicial MARCH 2014 MARCH M EETING The Criminal Courts Bar Association cordially invites you to the March Dinner Meeting The 2010 President’s Award Winner HONORABLE MITCHELL BLOCK & JORGE BLANCO AND ADAM GONZALEZ FROM DELANCEY STREET FOUndaTION “Sentencing Options and Alternatives” TUESDAY, march 11, 2014 Cocktails & Appetizers - 6:30 p.m. Dinner Meeting begins promptly at 7:00 p.m. $40.00 per person LES FRERES TAIX RESTAURANT 1911 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026 (Near Alvarado) 1 hour MCLE Pending Reservations advised. Call Elizabeth at (626) 577-5005. THE ROBERT M. TAKASUGI JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE AWARD 2014 CRIMINAL COUrtS The Criminal Courts Bar Association is pleased to announce that the BAR ASSOCIATION Judicial Excellence Award will now be named after the Honorable AWARD WINNERS Robert M. Takasugi. The Criminal Courts Bar Association is pleased to Judge Takasugi was appointed to the Los Angeles Municipal Court st in 1973 by then Governor Ronald Reagan. Two years later Governor announce that the 61 Annual Awards Dinner will Jerry Brown elevated him to the Los Angeles Superior Court. In 1976 be held on Saturday, April 26, 2014, at the prestigious President Ford named him to the federal bench. He went on senior Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. status in 1996 and continued to hear cases until his passing in August The Criminal Courts Bar Association is pleased to an- 2009 at the age of 78. nounce for the first time the award winners for 2014: Judge Takasugi handled a number or high profile cases, including the 1980 case that led to a Los Angeles Police Department band on choke holds JERRY GIESLER MEMORIAL AWARD and the 1984 cocaine trafficking trial of automaker John Z. DeLorean. CHRISTOPHER CHANEY Judge Takasugi was a survivor of a World War II relocation camp of Japanese Americans and he was known for his compassion for victims of injustice and his calm demeanor in the face of sometimes outrageous JOSEPH M. ROSEN JUSTICE AWARD courtroom antics. JAY JAFFE The Criminal Courts Bar Association is pleased to announce that the Judicial Excellence Award will now be named after this great man. JOURNALISM EXCELLENCE AWARD HOLLYWOOD ROOSEVELT HOTEL TBD HISTORY Bringing glamour back to the Boulevard, Thompson Hotel’s Hol- ROBERT M. TAKASUGI lywood Roosevelt Hotel reincarnation resonates with the opulence JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE AWARD of its fabled past. The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel has a long history HONORABLE LANCE ITO of catering to the show business elite. The hotel was founded in 1927 by a syndicate of Hollywood luminaries (including Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Sid Grauman, and Louis B. Mayer) to house east MORT HERBERT SERVICE AWARD coast movie-makers who were working on the west coast. Hollywood JOHN YZURDIAGA Roosevelt hotel’s “Blossom Room” hosted the first-ever Academy Awards ceremony, on May 19, 1929. That was also the shortest Oscar & PAUL HORGAN ceremony ever, lasting just five minutes, as Douglas Fairbanks and Al Jolson helped give away 13 statuettes. Marilyn Monroe was a resident JOHNNIE COCHRAN AWARD at the Hollywood Roosevelt for two years when her modeling career took off. Her first magazine shoot was taken on the diving board on VERNA WEFALD the pool behind the hotel, which was recently removed. The hotel’s remodeled pool contains an underwater mural painted by David PRESIDENT’S AWARD Hockney. OVERVIEW MIMI SILBERT, Bringing glamour back to the Boulevard, Thompson Hotel’s Holly- DELANCEY STREET FOUNDATION wood Roosevelt Hotel reincarnation resonates with the opulence of its fabled past. Located in the heart of Hollywood on the Walk of Fame across from the Grauman’s Chinese Theater, The Roosevelt stands out among Hollywood Blvd. hotels, housing some of the hottest drinking and eating venues on the west coast. These include the famous poolside Tropicana Bar, celebrity haunt Teddy’s nightclub, The Library Bar, which is acclaimed for its hand crafted cocktails, The Spare Room, a speakeasy gaming lounge featuring vintage bowling lanes and classic cocktails, and vaudeville inspired theater Beacher’s Madhouse. Public Kitchen and Bar serves eclectic American fare in a social atmosphere and award winning 24 Hour burger joint 25 Degrees offers a variety of dining options. To top it off, the hotel’s heated outdoor swimming pool provides guests the only locale in the world where they can swim in a million dollar work of art painted by acclaimed artist David Hockney. The luxury hotel on Hollywood Boulevard is constantly buzzing with the entertainment industry’s glitterati. CCBA NEWSLETTER CASE DIGEST By Gary Mandinach BDINNER MENUb People v. Sanchez (2014) Cal.App.4th , reported on January 22, 2014, Appetizer: in 2014 Los Angeles Daily Journal 663, the Fourth Appellate District, Country Platter Division 3 held that, pursuant to People v. Rodriguez (2012) 55 Cal.4th Salami, Cold Cuts, Ham and Smoked Meats 1125, the defendant cannot be convicted of the offense of actively par- ticipating in a street gang (§ 186.22, subd. (a)), as such a conviction requires more than a lone actor. However, there is nothing in section The main entrees will be: 186.22, subdivision (b)(1), the gang enhancement, that precludes the finding of that enhancement true, when the defendant acts alone for Pot Roast of Beef the benefit of a street gang. It was not err for the court to allow an Lean pot roast served with Bordelaise sauce expert’s testimony which provided substantial evidence for the gang Filet of Sole enhancement where opinion was supported by facts admitted into evidence, not speculative inferences based on defendant’s record of Entrees include relish trays, soup du jour, fresh sourdough prior offenses and past gang activities alone. (See People v. Martinez bread, garden salad with house vinaigrette dressing, fresh (2004) 116 Cal.App.4th 753, 762.) The admission of statements that vegetable, rice or potato, sherbet and coffee or tea. SAVE THE DATE were recorded by police officers, who did not testify, did not violate Sixth Amendment where evidence (People v. Gardeley (1996) 14 Cal.4th • 605, 618; see also Crawford v. California (2004) 541 U.S. 36, 60, 63, 68), People v. Falls (2014) Cal.App.4th , reported on January 29, was admitted as basis for gang expert’s opinion. (See People v. Fields 2014, in 2014 Los Angeles Daily Journal 1101, the Fourth Appellate • (1990) 51 Cal.3d 1063, 1070.) District, Division 1 held that the trial court did not err in failing • to hold a Faretta hearing, since he did not make a Faretta motion People v. Sy (2014) Cal.App.4th , reported on January 22, 2014, in 2014 because he did not “unequivocally” communicate his intention • Los Angeles Daily Journal 680, the Fourth Appellate District, Division 1, to represent himself. (See People v. Skaggs (1996) 44 Cal.App.4th 1, • held that the evidence was sufficient to sustain the convictions for selling 5-8.) The mere fact that the defendant’s expressed dissatisfaction or possessing counterfeit marks pursuant to section 350, subdivision (a) with his lawyer during a Marsden hearing, saying he’d like to go (2), in this case counterfeit handbags and jewelry. The evidence showed pro per if he could, was an explanation as to why his motion to they were selling identical marks without the prosecution establishing substitute counsel should be granted and not a clear statement of the labeled items were confusingly similar to genuine registered marks intent to exercise his right under Faretta. Secondly, the defendant or the defendants had the intent to defraud customers. The Court of was properly convicted under two forgery statutes, section 476, Appeal found that there was sufficient evidence of this offense, even when he attempted to pass a check that was not his, and section if the customer knew that the merchandise was not authentic. An in- 475, subdivision (c), by possessing the check. Both convictions tent to defraud is not an element of the offense. (See People v. Dieguez were upheld since convictions for violating separate statutes are (2001) 89 Cal.App.4th 266, 279-280.) The Court of Appeal also rejected proper, even if the statutes constitute “different statements of the appellant’s claim that the statute is unconstitutionally vague, wherein same offense.” they claimed that the statute does not require an intent to defraud or a likelihood the use of the mark created confusion, mistake or deception People v. Superior Court (Sanchez) (2014) Cal.App.4th , reported about the origin of the product. (See Tobe v. City of Santa Ana (1995) 9 on January 30, 2014, in 2014 Los Angeles Daily Journal 1198, the Cal.4th 1069, 1106-1107 [a statute should be sufficiently certain so that Third Appellate District held that a plea agreement is like a con- a person may know what is prohibited, but it cannot be held void for tract which is to be enforced by the court so that each side gets the uncertainty if any reasonable and practical construction can be given benefit of its bargain. (SeePeople v. Segura (2008) 44 Cal.4th 921, 930 to its language.]) Additionally, section 350 is not unconstitutionally [acceptance of the agreement binds the court to the agreement]; vague for lack of requiring an intent to defraud or likelihood of creating People v. Shelton (2006) 37 Cal.4th 759, 767 [a plea agreement is like confusion about a product, since the statute gives adequate notice of the a contract].) The plea agreement would have required the trial prohibited conduct where it limits its application to willful, knowing, court to impose an unauthorized sentence (life with a minimum or intentional dealings with counterfeit marks that are used or intended term of 7 years pursuant to section 3046 for attempted murder, to be used as a registered mark.
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